Axios Compromised, Chrome Zero-Day, and WhatsApp Malware - Blumira Briefings

About this episode

This episode covers the compromise of Axios, a Chrome zero-day vulnerability, and malware affecting WhatsApp.

Axios Compromised, Chrome Zero-Day, and WhatsApp Malware - Blumira Briefings Welcome to Blumira Briefings, your top headlines and trends for your security practice. This week's episode: - The npm account for Axios, a JavaScript library with over 100 million weekly downloads, was compromised by threat actors who published malicious versions (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) containing remote access trojan (RAT) malware. - Google has released an emergency security update for its Chrome web browser, addres...

Topics covered

• Axios Compromised
• Chrome Zero-Day
• WhatsApp Malware

Keywords

• security
• malware
• JavaScript
• remote access trojan
• emergency security update

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Axios, Chrome Zero-Day, Blumira Briefings, 1.14.1, Chrome, WhatsApp

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